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Laxmi Saa was just 15 years old when a 32-year-old man threw acid at her after she rejected his offer of marriage. Now, a decade on, the acid attack survivor and campaigner is to be the face of Indian fashion retail brand Viva…
A Chicago-based art director has found a unique way to use advertising skills for good; the anonymous creative improves the cardboard signs used by the homeless to see if they can better grab people’s attention. “As an art director it’s my job…
A group of students in Michigan, US, are helping the homeless and the environment this winter by using hundreds of plastic bags to make sleeping mats. The students use between 500 and 700 bags to crochet just one 6ft by…
When Ryan and Amy Green lost their 5-year-old son Joel to cancer, they channelled their grief into creating “a videogame developer’s love letter to his son”. Computer programmer Ryan began making “That Dragon, Cancer” while Joel was still alive; he had already…
Meet Deng Adut, 32. The accomplished Australian lawyer was a former Sudanese child soldier rescued by the UN and granted asylum in 1998. Adut was taken from his family when he was just 6 years old and conscripted into Sudan’s People Liberation Army where he…
8-year-old Ethan asked his mom if he could learn how to do make up like a professional, so she took him to the best make up artist she could find — and she says it’s got nothing to do with Ethan’s gender…
When Yvonne Trimble donated her wedding dress to a charity that turns the dresses into burial gowns for stillborn babies, she didn’t expect her act of kindness to go viral. In May 2015, Yvonne decided she no longer needed her wedding dress and…
When Mark Zuckerberg posted about his 2016 projects, he took a moment to remind everyone how far we have to go to reach total gender equality in the tech industries. The CEO and founder of Facebook detailed the “personal challenge” he’s…
A few days ago ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi attempted to recruit people to the extremist cause. Naturally many Muslims saw the opportunity for a good old fashioned Twitter roasting. “We urgently call upon every Muslim to join the fight,” tweeted…
It’s official: you should buy the men’s version of almost anything. Why? The short answer is, it’ll save you A LOT money. An investigation comparing nearly 800 products with female and male versions — meaning they were identical except for the gender-specific packaging…
Quite possibly the biggest TV fail in history took place last night at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant. Presenter Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner, and before they realised their mistake, gave the crown to her — on live television. Miss Colombia…
Two Australians, Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski, have created a floating rubbish bin that collects plastic bottles, paper, oil, fuel, and detergent floating in the ocean. It’s called the Seabin. The Seabin is automated and works 24/7, and was designed as a…
Remember Martin Shkreli, the pharma company CEO who price-jacked a 62-year-old vital medicine used for AIDS by 5,000%? The 32-year-old entrepreneur known as the “world’s most hated man” has been arrested on charges of securities fraud at the Murray Hill Tower Apartments, his residence in New…
Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia had a historic moment when it finally allowed women to vote in municipal polls and also stand for election. The last country in the world to open its ballots to women, Saudi Arabia is known…
US non-profit organization Lava Mae is transforming old city buses into mobile bathrooms to give showers to around 200 homeless people in San Francisco every week. Lava Mae, which roughly translates as Spanish for “wash me,” has installed ‘hygiene pods’ with showers, toilets,…
Mohamad Al-Noury and Athar Farroukh were forced to flee bombing in their Syrian hometown just days after their wedding. And so shortly before traveling to Canada, the couple spent their honeymoon in a refugee camp. Upon arriving in Saskatoon, they were interviewed…